Some existing news, updates and new feature recently releases at KeywordDiscovery.com.

KeywordDiscovery Updates:

1. Premium Global Keyword Database

As we strive to continually improve on keyword relevancy and accuracy, we have last week release a total re-index of all of our Premium keyword databases. Many skews identified and reported by our users were filtered out. As a result we are left with a much cleaner keyword data set that has over 2 billion searches in the Premium Global database.

2. New Historical Premium Databases

We have released for every Premium database, a respective Historical database of keywords that have data from August 2006 onwards. In other words, every keyword database now has its own respective Historical database with close to 2 years worth of data....

3. Existing Historical Global Database

We have also maintained the existing Historical Global Database which is still over 36 billion searches. Great for niche market research and PPC campaigns.

4. New Feature - Inflected Form Search

A new search feature has been released. For more information please see:http://www.keyworddiscovery.com/feature-inflected-form-search.html

5. Soon To Be Released

6. We are hiring!

If you have not noticed, the Overture suggestion tool and respective regional versions are now redirecting to Yahoo.com Search Marketing website instead:

http://sem.smallbusiness.yahoo.com/searchenginemarketing/

Confirming with Yahoo, the tool has officially been axed.

The Overture tool has long been used by webmaster, affiliates, PPC advertisers, and also by many 3rd party tools. But alas the time has come to say our final goodbye to the pioneer of Keyword Research. Thank you for the years when there was no alternative.

Unfortunately for too many years the Overture tool was not improved on and let slide to a level where the results displayed were just far too skewed. So skewed that the tool was attracting more and more "bad press" along with all those unofficial 3rd party tools causing server load issues, both drove Yahoo to pull the plug.

Many may not know, but Yahoo still has a keyword tool, simply login to a search marketing account and you can do your keyword research with even more features, some very similar to the Google keyword tool...

Cheers
David

Jeremy Schoemaker from ShoeMoney does not really like SEO experts and believes they are like used car salesmen.

His points are:

1) They can always sell you something.
2) They can never guarantee results.
3) They can not be held accountable.
4) They have a answer for everything.
5) All the magic happens behind the curtains - they cant tell you
what they are actual doing because that would be getting to much into
the secret sauce.
6) Anyone can be a SEO.

Well, you've got to admit Jeremy is good at starting a debate: one week later Danny Sullivan from http://www.searchengineland.com/ decided to do an interview with him to defend the SEO experts.

But did we need to be defended ?

Maxime

With the number of web pages, one would believe that only computers are now powerful enough to provide interesting results.

An American startup wants to challenge this claim and has just released a search engine that harnesses the power of thousands of people worldwide.

Basically, you make a search and a couple of minutes later the results are displayed. Apart from the loooooooong wait, the news lies in the fact that results are filtered by a Human before reaching your screen.

But is it worth waiting ?

Well, why don't you try http://www.chacha.com and post your comments ?

Maxime

It's 2008 and as usual the new year brings lots of surprises and presents.

And lots of calendars as well.

Why would anyone ever need a calendar now that we all have on our desk a computer that can provide us with any date and time ?

Anyway, that did not deter French affiliate marketing agency Effiliation to design their own calendar. And in typical marketing fashion (you know the "sex sells on the Internet"), they decided to bare it all and to make sure to draw maximum audience, they feature both male and female staff.

They called it "The Web Gods" and you can get from http://lesdieuxduweb.com/ . Simply click on the picture of the calendar.

Now, Becky being our resident photograph, I'm sure she can organise something similar at Trellian ?

Maxime

"My 5 year old son tries to understand how I make a living while he sees me all the time sitting in from of my laptop.

'Daddy, how do you make money ? Where does it come out of the computer ?'

Had I been a baker it would be a lot easier to explain..."

Jeremie is the founder of the online store creation platform Zlio but I'm sure that anyone working online can relate to this experience...

I remember when I did not have any grey hair, when the Internet was spelt with a capital I, when Yahoo! was a novelty and 10MB web hosting would cost $150 a month.

I remember when you just had to create a 5 page website, submit it to Yahoo!, wait a couple of weeks, and enjoy seeing it in the directory.

I remember when anyone could create a website on any subject, and be on top of Altavista a few weeks later.

I remember when everyone stood a chance at being ranked first, simply because there was no other website on the same subject.

Now we have LOTS of new websites created every day. And I mean huge numbers. Let's take only the number of blogs created per day: "Technorati is now tracking over 70 million weblogs, and we're seeing about 120,000 new weblogs being created worldwide each day" (source: http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000493.html ).

What does it mean ? Simply that with so much new content coming online every day, it is getting very hard to identify what is of value and what is not.

It is even getting so hard that engines don't know how to do it anymore, and have to drop all their ideas such as PageRank to go back to the basics: trust no-one, unless you really know them.

"Today 27% of Google’s results on the first link alone come from Wikipedia, as do 31 % of Yahoo’s." (source: http://aixtal.blogspot.com//2007/11/search-google-yahoo-comparison.html)

The same website also shows that on top of the results, you mostly get major web properties: newspapers, large content providers, etc...

Does it mean you can't rank anymore ? No it does not. It simply means you too need to go back to basics: become an authority on a subject, update your website often and write fresh content.

Maxime Grandchamp

It's a tough world out there, and it's even tougher in France.

Not only do they speak a weird language, they also go on strike for any reason, provided it's to do with priviledges a specific class wants to keep.

But I digress...

The latest casualty in the French world is the Search Engine Strategies in Paris.

It was to take place at the end of November and has now disappeared from the roadmap, replaced by the SES Forum in January.

Mind you, it lasted two years, with last year event boasting a huge 200 attendance, with no more than 180 speakers, friends of speakers and family ...

Well, well, well, maybe it's simply because it's organized by an American company ?

What do you think ? i will be happy to read your comments below...


Maxime Grandchamp